Dandelion fields forever

Dandelion Field Painting by Igor Barkhatkov

Unsober is the day,
foul play on sleepless nights
The Guns are awfully absurd
The Stones are even further,
I can’t find my music and the words won’t follow
dreams are ending with an artificial flavour
politically wasting years of savage force,
I need more than substance
to hang pretty portraits on a straighter wall
to preach the passion buried deep inside
build newer gods in the image of my kind,
I need darkened mountains
I need fertile valleys with running sky clear waters
to wash my sorrows and bury deep my fears
in the shadow of a greater fuller purple moon…
brick by brick, in the dark
breath by breath, doors closed, windows high
the heart collapses from the harder stronger grip,
I need a supernova, not only the spark
an exploding sunshine to burn one way out
to put down the unrest
to unspill the ink from the very first page,
in a coffee shop up that steep road
where dark roast and winter black tea
slowly wrote us to unstaged tragedy
the war and anguish, the spite I covered in me,
I need a blue spring
to walk anew the dandelion fields forever…

The fall

fall is coming rain and chill
dusk colored hot spice
and your blonde turns red
shinning silver to one’s breath
walking barefoot like a tiger
you serve wonders for desert,
twenty something miles ashore
where your blue turns green
feels like seventeen once again,
the young shapes on the floor
unless knees are bruised on fire
can’t spell ire form desire,
and we are fast driving
but I still need more –
a supernova in a winter storm
wild dancing and changing form
giving life to amazing chaos
filling up the heart and soul
without rhythm and control
bringing music to the whole,
is a spark I could call love…

Honey

Dear friend,
I’ve lost my way going south…
trapped in a dream that is not really mine
building bricks to build up the Wall
people are wrong
tell me who you are,
I need music
my voice will it suffice?
when in the craving
I fill up the cases
and then fade in some way…
my fingers blue
my sight alright
are there any purple stars?
dancing
with
my
heart
there is not much light
on the other side
of the line I followed from the start;
Love –
how do you measure
how can one know
the steps you have taken
the strings you have severed
brought you any closer
or made you whole,
a simple choice
her hand is made of white noise…

Not a fool

Fortuna - Drawing by Tay Aguilar
Fortuna – Drawing by Tay Aguilar


Do not call me “Darling”, don’t ask me to be cool
you compete with Fortune, my heart is rock ‘n’ roll
on this highway ain’t a hiker and my tank is nearly full
I can’t cite from Shakespeare but I’m not a fool
and going back to Twin Peaks is of very last resort,
share this ride together until it’s coming to an end
cherish every moment for tomorrow’s just a gleam…

There will be no puppies and no tattoos on my hands
slow she poured Martini, I poured whisky on the coke
night was turning purple and the stars a shade of green
holding down the mountains one may hear a little scream
I have crossed the waters to what came from in between,
and in the storm I dream of shelter to the break of dawn
keeping straight is not a virtue but a ransom of its own…

The Giant

The Stone Giant by Anna Höglund



was it but a dream
all the rainy mornings dressed in skin
the evenings in the cold chasing purple stars,
young hearts never getting old
lovers in the chain of storm
fast cars crashing down
some things turn to gold, others never hold;
what I miss the most
is a song my lips be spelling in the scent of Holy Ghosts
on high rocky roads crossing
you were naked in the wild
with a smile dressed in white
and everyone that came along
carved and carried larger stones…
so,
give me back the music and let me play my cello
I still hear the horses
can you keep it breathing until we reach the border?
Alice,
I remember now –
you gave me the stories and I gave them hope
grains of silver on a field of stone,
and I don’t need no colors
to paint it back alive
for I’ll always be a Giant
awake in the exploding Sun…

Again and again

The Gray Tree, by Piet Mondrian, 1911

Since you’ve closed your eye
I cannot see
the flicker in your smile was built for me
trembled in the night when reason failed
feeling out your fire pouring through my ways,
Dearest,
I almost took you for a dance that day,
painting into darkness no wandering little light
told me you haven’t loved enough,
the air was burning more than I could say
yet from the front row it was a remarkable play
so I stayed,
unreasonably long
and that cold evening going back home
I saw you,
again and again…

The Wishing

Edgar Degas, L’étoile, 1878 – source

What is left to say
in the many books to read
the blank pages at the end
I always wondered what they hid,
in between the spaces
lines are coming back to breathe
did you make the choice
did it came imposed,
the dreaming of a future that nothing could’ve hold,
I’m told you danced that morning feeling pretty dressed in white
I wish you rice and glitter over kindness and good time…